Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword(p. xi)
• Preface to the Fifth Edition(p. xix)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xxvii)
• Biographical Note(p. xxxiii)
• Chapter 1 Budgeting as Conflicting Promises(p. 1)
• Budgets Are Conflicting Commitments(p. 7)
• Tax Preferences(p. 11)
• Appropriations: The Power of Congress and Power Within Congress(p. 13)
• The President Is Both Rival and Partner of Congress(p. 16)
• Conflicting Promises: The Multiple Meanings of Budgetary Control(p. 19)
• Chapter 2 Budgets as Struggles for Power: A Historical Perspective(p. 25)
• Colonial Origins(p. 26)
• Turning Points: Civil War through World War I(p. 30)
• The Executive Budget Movement(p. 33)
• Dislocation and Continuity: Depression and War(p. 40)
• Chapter 3 The Dance of the Dollars: Classical Budgeting(p. 42)
• Calculations(p. 44)
• Complexity(p. 44)
• Aids to Calculation(p. 45)
• Incremental Budgeting(p. 46)
• Roles and Perspectives(p. 50)
• The Agency(p. 50)
• The Bureau of the Budget(p. 54)
• The Appropriations Committees(p. 56)
• Strategies(p. 57)
• Be a Good Politician(p. 58)
• Clientele(p. 58)
• Confidence(p. 60)
• Congressional Committee Hearings(p. 62)
• Strategies Designed to Capitalize on the Fragmentation of Power in National Politics(p. 62)
• Chapter 4 The Collapse of Consensus(p. 68)
• The Growth of Entitlements(p. 69)
• Economic Activism(p. 70)
• Federal Credit(p. 71)
• Priorities(p. 72)
• Impoundment(p. 73)
• The Budget Act: More Checks, More Balances, but Not More Control(p. 75)
• Impoundment Again(p. 75)
• Congressional Budget Office(p. 76)
• Senate Budget Committee and House Budget Committee(p. 76)
• Scheduling(p. 76)
• Resolutions(p. 77)
• Reconciliation(p. 78)
• Complexity(p. 78)
• A Congressional Budget, or Merely More Budgeting?(p. 78)
• The Budget Process, 1975--1979: Making Totals Stick(p. 79)
• Classical Budgeting Withers Without Quite Disappearing(p. 81)
• Chapter 5 The Politics of Dissensus(p. 83)
• Why Budget Decisions Became So Difficult(p. 84)
• The Focus on Totals(p. 84)
• The End of Economic Management(p. 85)
• Dominance of the Deficit(p. 86)
• Polarization of the Parties(p. 87)
• The Congressional Budget Act in the 1980s(p. 88)
• R and R: Resolution and Reconciliation(p. 88)
• Deferral and Rescission Redux(p. 90)
• The Shifting Budgetary Base(p. 91)
• Continuing Omnibus Resolutions(p. 92)
• OMB in an Era of Perennial Budgeting(p. 93)
• Top-Down Policy Making(p. 94)
• Continuous Budgeting(p. 94)
• Negotiating with Congress(p. 95)
• Implications for OMB(p. 96)
• Dissensus in Congress(p. 97)
• Role Reversal(p. 97)
• Rolled on the Floor(p. 98)
• Budgeting Penetrates Congress(p. 100)
• Gimmicks(p. 100)
• Chapter 6 The Politics of Balancing Budgets(p. 103)
• Gramm-Rudman-Hollings(p. 105)
• The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990(p. 106)
• The Clinton Budget of 1993(p. 108)
• The Politics of Radical Reversal 1995(p. 111)
• Prologue: Constitutional Amendment and Rescission(p. 112)
• Budgets and Counterbudgets: The President's Budget and the Congressional Resolution(p. 113)
• Incrementalism in Mirror Image: Appropriations(p. 114)
• Confrontation: Continuing Resolutions and the Debt Limit(p. 115)
• Reconciliation and Intransigence(p. 118)
• The Balanced Budget Act of 1997(p. 120)
• Chapter 7 Entitlements(p. 123)
• The "Ought" and "Is" of Entitlements(p. 124)
• Entitlements and Budgeting(p. 129)
• How Do Entitlements Start?(p. 132)
• Why Do Entitlements Grow?(p. 135)
• Maintaining Commitment: Social Security(p. 136)
• Escalating Costs: Medicare(p. 138)
• Expanding Eligibility: Medicaid(p. 140)
• Provider Pressures: End-Stage Renal Disease(p. 142)
• How Have Entitlements Been Controlled?(p. 144)
• Declining Need: Black Lung Disease(p. 145)
• Ending an Entitlement: Welfare(p. 146)
• Entitlements and Others(p. 148)
• Appropriations: Head Start and WIC(p. 148)
• Tax Expenditures: Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)(p. 149)
• Formula Grants to States: Adoption Assistance Program, Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, and the Ryan White Care Act(p. 149)
• Chapter 8 Budgeting for Defense(p. 152)
• Dimensions of Defense(p. 153)
• Defense Strategy and Funding(p. 155)
• The Internal Budget Process(p. 161)
• Planning, Programming, Budgeting(p. 161)
• Acquisitions(p. 165)
• The Congressional Budget Process(p. 170)
• Reprogramming(p. 173)
• Secrecy(p. 175)
• Cuts(p. 176)
• Contingencies(p. 179)
• Chapter 9 Reform(p. 181)
• Norms of Budgetary Behavior(p. 181)
• Forms of Budgeting(p. 184)
• Reform Without Conflict(p. 184)
• The Politics in Budget Reform(p. 186)
• Unit of Measurement: Cash or Volume(p. 187)
• Time Span: Months, One Year, Many Years(p. 188)
• Calculation: Incremental or Comprehensive(p. 189)
• Management Reforms(p. 191)
• Performance and Budgeting(p. 191)
• Centralization and Decentralization: The Role of OMB(p. 193)
• Credit Reform(p. 195)
• Financial Management(p. 196)
• Capital Budgeting(p. 197)
• Limits(p. 198)
• The Line-Item Veto(p. 200)
• Chapter 10 From Surplus to Deficit(p. 205)
• The Disappearing Deficit(p. 205)
• The Politics of Budget Surplus(p. 208)
• The End of the Surplus(p. 212)
• Afterword(p. 219)
• Characteristics of the Budget Process(p. 219)
• The Budgetary Process Is Powerful Yet Impotent(p. 220)
• The Budgetary Process Is Structured Yet Formalistic(p. 220)
• The Budgetary Process Is Complex Yet Segmented(p. 221)
• Budgetary Politics Are Polarized but Moderated(p. 223)
• Glossary(p. 225)
• Guide to Acronyms(p. 230)
• Select Bibliography(p. 231)
• Credits(p. 245)
• Index(p. 246)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Aaron Wildavsky: University of California, Berkeley
Naomi Caiden: California State University, Los Angeles